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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow was patient, with the patience of a child awaiting Christmas. For more than a month the people had scanned communiques that were optimistic but vague. There was the daily assurance of gains on all fronts, but localities and specific actions were not mentioned. There was the terse Pravda estimate of Adolf Hitler's staggering losses on the eastern front: 300,000 dead between Dec. 6 and Jan. 15, 6,000,000 casualties in the first five months of war. There was the heartening report of the Red Navy: 81 Axis warships and 276 auxiliary vessels sunk in seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: No Birthday Present | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Last week in Pravda Comrade David Iosifovich Zaslavsky, Soviet Russia's leading foreign news editorialist, snorted at the U.S. for declaring Manila an open city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Manila Is Not Philadelphia | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

There was so much of importance in abeyance that waiting for the little things -for the factory whistle, for the streetcar, for Pravda with its reassurances-had be come almost intolerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MORALE: 175,000,000 Faces | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Pravda Speaks. These troop movements explained why the pact was made, as well as how it would work. To wishful thinkers who thought it was not worth the paper it was written on, the Communist Party's Pravda had some rude words to say. "All arguments of the British and American press lead one to conclude that . . . the pact . . . disturbed the plans of London and Washington politicians." Citing Washington reports that the U.S. had hoped to lure Moscow into keeping Japan from attacking Singapore and the East Indies Pravda added: "The 'ungrateful' Soviet Union failed to appreciate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Pact Begins to Work | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...Pravda also took the trouble to deny that Germany had put pressure on Russia to sign, stated flatly that the Kremlin had refused an invitation to join the Axis last November. In other words, Russia was playing a lone hand, with the object of keeping out of trouble. If by keeping out of trouble Russia got others into trouble, that would be so much the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Pact Begins to Work | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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